[{"node":{"title":"Ferg041","Collections":"Deirdre","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1880","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, February 4, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Ferg041","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Spell, Freedom, Maev","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/ferg041","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Ferg041_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffAnd welcome may the message be I bring. \n\nNAISI.\nFrom whom and what the message? Sends he peace? \n\nFERGUS.\nConor sends peace and pardon. I myself\nYour warrantor and convoy. \n\nNAISI.\nFavouring Gods !\nWhat spell has wrought him to forgive my wrong? \n\nDEIRDRE.\nWe did him not a wrong. The wrong was his.\nHe kept me as a dainty for his use.\nLocked in a prison-garden shamefully ;\nBeast, who might well have been my grandfather I\nTill Naisi gave me freedom, and I gave\nNaisi the love was only mine to give. \n\nFERGUS.\nWhat, daughter : thou shalt come as well as he,\nAnd have him for thyself, be it wrong or right.\n'Tis fixed and warranted ; and here's the hand\nWill make it good. Naisi, the case stood thus :\nMy politic, learned step-son found his Maev\nA partner somewhat over-arrogant,\nAnd broke the marriage. Maev, imperial jade,\nHas wed with Ailill, Tinne's son, and reigns\nWith him o'er the Connacians : in his halls\nOf battlemented Croghan nursing hate\n'Gainst now-detested Conor ; and from wilds\nOf Irrus drawing Gamanradian braves\nAnd fierce Damnonian sworders, sends them forth\n'Gainst the Ultonian borders, host on host.\nPressing the Red Branch with perpetual war.\nWe've fought them, and we've chased them oft, but still\nThey issue from their heathy western hives\nAs thick as summer midges, and our swords\nAre dulled with slaughter, and our arms are tired.\nWe've missed thee, Naisi, and thy brothers here ;\nThere's the plain truth. We missed and needed you.\nAnd we, \u2014 Cuchullin, Conall, and myself, \u2014\nAvowed it in full council. And, said I,\n\" Sir, give me liberty to carry them\nThe royal message with assurance firm. \n","Type":"Text"}}]